The my choice for this computer is hqplayer but you can use any name. Select in boot menu the USB pen drive and follows these images.
KEY HQPLAYER MANUAL
The first operation to do is the installation of the operating system so download the debian To enter in the bios setup see the messages after power on or read the specific manual of your computer. Sygnalyst give an image to download complete of all packages necessary to run HQPlayer emebdded but there are some limitations, for example there's no packaging system and no NTFS filesystem support so I have prefered to use a standard but minimal operating system.
I recently had a bad experience with Seagate Expansion harddisks with blocks during playback also if on paper the read speed should be the same of Western Digital. The NTFS in read only is supported by Linux without any extra packages but it is possible add the read-write function not necessary in my case. In any case, the performance of the computer that you plan to use must be evaluated very well because there are considerable differences between one processor and another, even when all Intel I5 CPUs are compared. One my friend use Daphile on an old Apple Mac mini with 1. HQPlayer embedded is a daemon server running on a dedicated hardware so it is immune to any interference allowing a perfect reproduction of any track at high bitrate also during the PCM to DSD on-the-fly convertion. The embedded version of HQPlayer is designed for building Linux-based music playback devices and digital audio processors.
This software is available for Windows, Linux and macOS and it have many algorithm for noise filters which allow many sound variations. To get more information contact me at: webmaster audiodesignguide.